Liverpool Council has launched a new homelessness strategy. Will it work?

Liverpool Council has launched a new homelessness strategy. Will it work?

Dear readers — two years ago, Liverpool Council leader Liam Robinson declared a homelessness emergency in the city. Writing to the then-government’s housing secretary Michael Gove, he said the cost of providing temporary accommodation had spiralled from £250,000 per annum to more than £19 million in three years, calling the figures “harrowing”. As the third most deprived local authority in England, Liverpool had long struggled to meet housing de…